When your name is Michael O’Connell, you don’t need to wear green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

Green is for amateurs.

I could have used the luck of the Irish, though, yesterday, for my “hometown” college–that would be the George Mason University–the only school I know with nickname “Patriots” that uses green in its colors. The “Patriots” could have locked up an NCAA Tournament bid with a win yesterday against VCU, though fell a bit short in that quest. Mason ended the year 26-8 but was denied an at-large birth from the selection committee, who saw fit to include 14 teams from the SEC but one from the Atlantic 10.

Cue up Rodney Dangerfield because these Patriots get no respect.